Matt, you mentioned the iPhoto library being on an external HD. Have you tried 
clicking on that library to open iPhoto? Maybe your iPhoto is opening a default 
library on the iMac instead of the one on the external HD.

Sent from my iPad

> On 11 Jul 2015, at 3:58 pm, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Ronni, I am not sure what Camera Roll or Photo Stream are on the iPad. I 
> have never used one it is my wife's and I just connected it up to the iMac 
> and it showed up as a device.
> 
> I did try to import all the 5,000 in one go as that was the only option.
> 
> When I go to "last import" there is nothing, nor is the anything for the last 
> 12 months and as I mentioned before the event in its entirety has 
> disappeared. Even though I had imported and looked at all the photos in it by 
> opening the event in iPhoto and scrolling through it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Matt.
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:17:43 ro...@mac.com wrote
> 
> Were all the photos saved in the Camera Roll on the iPad - not just in Photo 
> Stream?
> Did you try to import the whole 5,000 photos in one import?
> Always best to import in smaller lots... 
> 
> Can you see the photos by selecting 'Last Import' in the Source pane?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> 
>> On 10 Jul 2015, at 7:52 pm, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, I have been trying to imports about 5,000 photos from an iPad into 
>> iPhoto with the library located on an external HD.
>> 
>> I am using iPhoto 9.2.3 on OSX 10.6.8 and IOS 8.4 on the iPad.
>> 
>> The import locked after it had said the photo's had been imported. I looked 
>> up what to do on the net and the best answer was reboot.
>> 
>> I did this and checked all the photos were there in the event. I closed 
>> iPhotos.
>> 
>> Later I wanted to something else and opened iPhotos and I can't find the 
>> event or photo's anywhere.      
>> 
>> In the meantime I had deleted the photo's from the iPad,
>> 
>> So I am now panicking, anyone have any ideas as to where I should look to 
>> see where the photos are?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Matt.
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